This edition: Season Five, #3

Episode Details

Original tape date: January 21, 2006.

Disease… Starvation… Mass Eviction… All were the conditions facing Ireland’s impoverished population during the Great Irish Potato Famine at the end of the 19th century. To help raise awareness about the famine and how it relates to issues of poverty and hunger in the world today, The City University of New York’s Institute for Irish American Studies is working with New York Public School Teachers to help introduce the famine into their school’s curriculum. Part of this was having the Irish Institute take these teachers to Ireland, to take a course and visit the actual famine sites. So sit back and enjoy the trip… as CUNY takes you to the Emerald Isle. Music by Joanie Madden & Cherish the Ladies. Special thanks to: Ulster American Folk Park - Northern Ireland, Strokestown Park and Famine Museum, Carrick-on-Shannon Workhouse & St. Pat's Hospital, Kilmainham Jail - Ireland, High School for Teaching and the Professions - New York City.

About this series

Study With the Best is CUNY TV's show about CUNY. This magazine show focuses on the best and brightest professors, alumni, and programs that CUNY has to offer students, delving into a CUNY system that contains over 500,000 students and a wide and divergent alumni reach. The series highlights the rewards of a college education and the excitement of student life around the system' 24 institutions.